Hi to all,

I updated my custom OEM.TGZ with support for JMicron PATA controllers.

I ported the driver from kernel 2.6.21 to ESX4i.
Please, note that I don't tested it because I don't have the hardware (I do because someone asked for it in the forum).

Moreover, this controller is mixing SATA (in AHCI mode) and IDE (as emulation). You need to set your correct configuration in "simple.map" adjusting the PCI ID subclass acording to your hardware. In my custom OEM.TGZ "197b:2361" only loads "pata_jmicron.o" driver and "197b:2363" only loads "ahci.o". Please, change as you need!

Current drivers:

* NIC Realtek 8169 (yes, the PCI version!)
* NIC Marvell Yukon
* STORAGE Enhanced AHCI
* STORAGE Marvell PATA (88SE61xx, ported & compiled by myself)
* STORAGE JMicron PATA (JMB36x, ported & compiled by myself)

Finally, please, continue porting more drivers to ESX4i !!!!

Thanks for posting this.

You welcome!

Who upgrades http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/customize_oem_tgz.php ?

That would be me and it's done

Just wanted to confirm that the JMicron driver is working, but my controller (asus p5b motherboard) reports itself as "197b:2363" (no matter whether I set it to raid/ide/ahci in bios) so I had to change the "simple.map" file in order to actually load "pata_jmicron.o" ("ahci.o" didn't work).

Now it finally detects a DVD drive connected to this controller, so thanks a lot!

Also, I can confirm that the Marvell Yukon driver works as well. Although, my motherboard has two of them and only the first one (11AB:4320) is detected. No luck with the other one (11AB:4364) even when I added it to the "simple.map" file. But it's not really a problem for me since I've already bought the Intel NIC so I have 2 (of 3 possible) NICs available in ESXi now.

Folks,

I now have IDE storage working on my Asus P5K with Jmicron drivers

I did have to customize the /etc/vmware/simple.map

and replace the second occurence of 197b:2361 pata_jmicron.o
which is 197b:2363 ahci.o with 197b:2363 pata_jmicron.o

and I also needed to do this inside OEM.TGZ on dd5 on my usb stick image

So I did
mount -o loop ddimage offset of the dd5 partition /my mount directory
then replaced oem.tgz in there with the modified one

and the tar of the ddimage is tar zcvf oem.tgz etc bin oem.txt
not tar oem.tgz .
that kernel panicked

it works

f.

Hi all,

unfortunately in my case the pata_jmicron driver 0.1.4 doesn't seem to work. It loads fine but doesn't find any drive at all. If i change simple.map to use AHCI drivers it finds at least the drive attached at the first port.

On the same PC i have a working installation of UBUNTU 10.00 which identifies all the drives successfully using their pata_jmicron which is version 0.1.5

I tried to recompile using the instructions i have found here :

http://www.kernelcrash.com/blog/using-a ... 009/08/22/

but it fails with numerous errors when i compile the driver. I'm afraid my C programming skills are not enough to do the necessary changes to make it work.

Does anybody that has the necessary skills bother to compile version 0.1.5 it for us ?

Regards,
Pocopico